Search results for "classics"

Historians on Finland’s Status in the Russian Empire

1998

Regulatory RNAs and beyond.

2011

The dynamic regulation of biological processes by RNA has emerged as a key field in recent years, and was the topic of the 62nd Mosbacher Colloquium of the German Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (GBM). The 2011 Colloquium, held in April in the romantic Neckar-river region, was also a celebration of the tenth anniversary of the RNA Biochemistry study group within the GBM, which acts as platform for RNA biologists and chemists within Germany and in other European countries.

Foreword: Special issue in honor of the 60th Birthday of Professor Alberto Apostolico

2008

Debating Relativistic Cosmology, 1917–1924

2018

Physical astronomy as we know it today matured during the latter half of the twentieth century. It was preceded by a period Jean Eisenstaedt has dubbed the “low water mark” in general relativity (GR), covering roughly the period 1925 to 1955 (Eisenstaedt 1988b). Starting in the 1960s, however, a series of startling developments helped pave the way for what has since been called the “renaissance of general relativity,” which suddenly took on great significance for astrophysics and cosmology. In the days of Einstein and Eddington, one could imagine a gravitational field so strong that it would produce a black hole, a true space–time singularity. People talked about such things, but hardly any…

Otto Blüh and Ernst Mach’s Legacy: Inheritance and Task

2019

Otto Bluh (1902–1981) was a professor of physics who maintained a lifelong interest in Mach and contributed actively to previous commemorations. Dozent and first assistant at the German University of Prague, he was forced into exile as a result of the German occupation and held research and academic positions in Birmingham (UK), and the universities of British Columbia (Canada) and Vanderbilt (USA). Bluh not only was a pioneer in recognizing the relevance that physics teaching had in Mach’s ideas but developed many of them, highlighting critical thinking, the importance of history and philosophy in physics, bridging specialization and bringing humanism back to science. This paper provides a…

Felix Klein, Adolf Hurwitz, and the “jewish question” in german academia

2007

Wrede, Ferdinand (1863–1934)

2006

Ferdinand Wrede was born in Berlin and, after having received his doctor's degree, he was a collaborator on the Sprachatlas des Deutschen Reichs [Linguistic atlas of the ‘Deutsches Reich’] project in Marburg, and later on, full Professor of Germanic philology. Wrede's fundamental studies first were concerned with Germanic: the languages of the Vandals and the Ostrogoths. In 1908, he founded the series Deutsche Dialektgeographie in which dialect monographs, mostly on the basis of direct investigations (other than Wenker's indirect method), were published. He initiated many scientific projects, e.g., the Hessen-Nassauisches Worterbuch, an area dialect dictionary, he interpreted dialect maps, …

Conan Fischer, A Vision of Europe. Franco-German Relations during the Great Depression, 1929–1932. Oxford, Oxford University Press 2017

2018

Frings, Theodor (1886–1968)

2006

Theodor Frings, late professor of German language and literature at the university of Leipzig, dealt with the dynamics of language in history, with the contact of German with neighbouring languages, such as, Dutch, Romance (“Germania Romana”) and Slavic languages. To Frings, the explanation of language change was the ‘external’ history. His description of the regional basis of Standard German, namely, the compromise language caused by dialect mixture in east Germany, was well accepted.

Transforming Tradition: Richard Courant in Göttingen

2018

Richard Courant had a knack for being at the right place at the right time. He came to Gottingen in 1907, just when Hilbert and Minkowski were delving into fast-breaking developments in electron theory. There he joined three other students who also came from Breslau: Otto Toeplitz, Ernst Hellinger, and Max Born, all three, like him, from a German Jewish background. Toeplitz was their natural intellectual leader, in part because his father was an Oberlehrer at the Breslau Gymnasium (Muller-Stach 2014). Courant was five or six years younger than the others; he was sociable and ambitious, but also far poorer than they (Reid 1976, 8–13).